Graduate student David Dennen is the 2013 recipient of the Marnie Dilling Prize (from the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Northern California Chapter), for his paper “Hybridity or Purity, Border Regions or Border Lines?: The Problem of Musical Style in Odisha, India.”

The Marnie Dilling Memorial Prize was established in 1998 as an award for the outstanding student paper presented at the Northern California Chapter of the SEM annual meeting. Marnie Dilling
(d. 1997) was a beloved colleague in the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley.